Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

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You are no longer an Arctic frontier. You constitute a bridge to the continent of Asia and all its people.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.

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Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.

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Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.

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Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

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Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.

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And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.

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Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

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Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.

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We view our Nation's strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.

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Fortunately for us and our world, youth is not easily discouraged. Youth with its clear vista and boundless faith and optimism is uninhibited by the thousands of considerations that always bedevil man in his progress. The hopes of the world rest on the flexibility, vigor, capacity for new thought, and the fresh outlook of the young.

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I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.

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The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

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Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

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I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and weak.

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Science, great as it is, remains always the servant and the handmaiden of freedom. And a free science will ever be one of the most effective tools through which man will eventually bring to realization his age-old aspiration for an abundant life, with peace and justice for all.

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Engineers build for the future, not merely for the needs of men but for their dreams as well. Thus, inherently, the engineer's work is a fearless optimism that life will go forward, and that the future is worth working for.

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I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.

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We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

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The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

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The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

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The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

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Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.

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Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.

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As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

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The right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

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But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.

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Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

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